Abstract

Hijikata Tatsumi (1928–1986), dancer and choreographer, is one of the founders of butoh, a new dance form created in Japan. He called his dance ankoku butoh, which literally means darkness dance, and symbolized it with the aphorism “Butoh is a dead body desperately standing up.”

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